Real. Beautiful. Roofs.
February 9, 2009
For anyone interested in pursuing a green roof, now may be the time. Soon there may be an additional financial incentive to install a green roof on your new or existing structure. This is on top of all the other wonderful benefits of a green roof.
[January 30, 2009] Senator Maria Cantwell from Washington State introduced the Clean Energy Stimulus and Investment Assurance Act of 2009 (S.320) legislation on Monday January 26 that, if adopted, would provide financial incentives for commercial and residential green roof installation. Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and the American Society of Landscape Architects worked together to help draft the section of the bill that is focused on the green roof incentive.
For more info see: American Society of Landscape Architects or Green Roofs for Healthy Cities or contact us at Phillips Garden
Time Lapse Photography
January 27, 2009
One Year in 40 Seconds, by Eirik Solheim. It’s lovely isn’t it!…
Phillips Garden Studio Space
December 18, 2008
Phillips Garden studio has a great history . A gas station transformed into a design studio. Not only is this space a great example of reuse but the space is downright beautiful. Ed Burke, the owner of Phillips Garden, designed and built the studio from the ground up (with the help of others). In 2005 a second floor addition was added. Below is a photo journey of the studio space and all its transformations…
The original structure for what is now Phillips Garden
beginning the construction
a fish sculpture was built out front by artist (and professor) Jeff Millikan
In time the fish was removed and would be replaced by a new sculpture (you will see below), Jeff Millikan is still a good friend of Phillips Garden and comes has coffee with us from time to time. We all miss the fish a little…
at one point Phillips was also a coffee shop, now this space is closed to the public but still open for staff use. It’s awesome.
the downstairs studio…
after the fish we got a new sculpture by Su-Chen Hung, a San Francisco based artist
It is a large bamboo windchime with the beginnings of a blanket of thyme on the ground
In 2005 a second level weeHouse was added to Phillips Garden studio
… with a crane
it looks great on the inside too
we love it
our studio today – 2008
Walter De Maria
December 8, 2008
Walter De Maria is an American sculptor born in 1935. His work is very linear and grid-like, playing with scale, spacing, minimalism, materials… You can find a short biography of him here. This post shows 4 of his works; The Lightning Field, Earth Room, A Computer Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World / 3 – 12 Polygon, and The Broken Kilometer.
In the words of De Maria, “Art reminds us we’re alive”
Below is The Lightning Fields project. This piece consists of 400 polished stainless steel poles installed in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. This can be found in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. One has to pay to visit/stay at the lightning fields as well as make a reservation. This is a space that is meant to be experienced over a period of time and, if you’re lucky, to be experience during a storm.
This next project is called, Earth Room. Who doesn’t love the idea of a room filled with dirt? The images below are of the Earth Room in New York Earth, it was created in 1977 and is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist.
Below is the piece entitled, “A Computer Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World / 3 – 12 Polygon” followed by “The Broken Kilometer”. These pieces play with space and spacing. Creating a message through grids and distances.
